Kingdom Culture: May 21, 2023

Istrouma Baptist Church (BR)
May 21, 2023

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May 21 | Challenges and Choices
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May 21, 2023 | Tim Keith
Challenges and Choices

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭13‬:‭30‬-‭33‬‬
Then Caleb quieted the people in the presence of Moses and said, “Let’s go up now and take possession of the land because we can certainly conquer it!” But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t attack the people because they are stronger than we are!” So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size. We even saw the Nephilim there — the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them.”

1. God Has A Challenge
“Will you trust Me”


Numbers 13:1-2
“The LORD spoke to Moses: “Send men to scout out the land of Canaan (challenge) I am giving to the Israelites; (promise)”


Faith is - totally relying on God because you know that He won’t let you down.


God is more interested in your BELIEF than He is in your RELIEF!


2. We Have A Choice
​ *FEAR

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭1‬-‭4‬‬
Then the whole community broke into loud cries, and the people wept that night. All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to die by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and go back to Egypt.”

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭33‬‬
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and bear the penalty for your acts of unfaithfulness until all your corpses lie scattered in the wilderness.

‭‭Numbers‬ ‭14‬:‭28‬-‭30‬‬
Tell them: As I live — this is the Lord’s declaration — I will do to you exactly as I heard you say. Your corpses will fall in this wilderness — all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more  — because you have complained about me. I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

2. We Have A Choice
​ *FEAR
*FAITH

‭‭Joshua‬ ‭2‬:‭23‬-‭24‬‬
Then the men returned, came down from the hill country, and crossed the Jordan. They went to Joshua son of Nun and reported everything that had happened to them. They told Joshua, “The Lord has handed over the entire land to us. Everyone who lives in the land is also panicking because of us.”

‭‭Joshua‬ ‭6‬:‭16‬, ‭20‬‬
After the seventh time, the priests blew the rams’ horns, and Joshua said to the troops, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. So the troops shouted, and the rams’ horns sounded. When they heard the blast of the ram’s horn, the troops gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. The troops advanced into the city, each man straight ahead, and they captured the city.

God doesn’t guarantee that the journey will be easy, but He does guarantee that when you arrive at your destination, it will be the Promised Land.

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